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I switched to Firefox for the idealogical reasons above and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a net improvement. The only site I have compatibility

I switched to Firefox for the idealogical reasons above and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a net improvement. The only site I have compatibility issues with on desktop is MS Teams and even then it's only for voice/video calls, everything else works fine. Firefox Android is a slightly less happy place. The password manager doesn't work very well (am moving away from the built-in one) and I can't log in on Amazon (which is important because I can't buy Kindle books in the app because of the Play Store).

PawgerZ 3y ago
Interesting. Firefox android works great for me, but Firefox windows gets very slow on my machine. I don't use their password manager on either, though, so I can't attest to that.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  > but Firefox windows gets very slow on my machine. This is why I don't use FF (although I'm on Linux). It's unusably slow for me. My experience is not the most common one (indicating that there's something about my ecosystem that FF hates), but I haven't been able to make FF work in any of the releases starting a couple of years back, I think. I don't browse on my phone at all, so I won't be using FF there purely for that reason.
- teddyh 3y ago
  Is it still slow for you? Have you tested it recently? <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35458746 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35458746>
  - PawgerZ 3y ago
    Yes, it's still my default browser -- work and home. I put up with it because I browse far more on my phone than on my computer.
FooBarBizBazz 3y ago
Firefox Android OOMs whenever it sees an article from The Guardian.
- atq2119 3y ago
  This is just more anecdata, but I'm exclusively using Firefox on Android and have never had issues with The Guardian. In fact, at this very moment there is a Guardian article linked on the front page, and I've visited it without an issue. I don't doubt your experience, but it's clearly not universal.
clemiclemen 3y ago
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PawgerZ 3y ago

Interesting. Firefox android works great for me, but Firefox windows gets very slow on my machine. I don't use their password manager on either, though, so I can't attest to that.

JohnFen 3y ago
> but Firefox windows gets very slow on my machine. This is why I don't use FF (although I'm on Linux). It's unusably slow for me. My experience is not the most common one (indicating that there's something about my ecosystem that FF hates), but I haven't been able to make FF work in any of the releases starting a couple of years back, I think. I don't browse on my phone at all, so I won't be using FF there purely for that reason.
teddyh 3y ago
Is it still slow for you? Have you tested it recently? <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35458746 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35458746>
- PawgerZ 3y ago
  Yes, it's still my default browser -- work and home. I put up with it because I browse far more on my phone than on my computer.

FooBarBizBazz 3y ago

Firefox Android OOMs whenever it sees an article from The Guardian.

atq2119 3y ago
This is just more anecdata, but I'm exclusively using Firefox on Android and have never had issues with The Guardian. In fact, at this very moment there is a Guardian article linked on the front page, and I've visited it without an issue. I don't doubt your experience, but it's clearly not universal.

clemiclemen 3y ago

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